Improvement
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The Stability and Growth Pact prescribes an annual
improvement
of at least 0.5 % of GDP.
But
improvement
presupposes diagnosing why Europe’s productivity performance, with a few notable exceptions, has been so bad.
Video rentals, bookstore chains, pharmacies, home
improvement
stores, electronics and camera shops, catalog stores, and more: all went the way of the horse and buggy.
The necessary investments include an overhaul of the EU’s asylum policy and
improvement
of its border controls.
Politicians feel their constituents’ pain, but it is hard to improve the quality of education, for
improvement
requires real and effective policy change in an area where too many vested interests favor the status quo.
In the absence of some miraculous
improvement
in productivity growth of the same order as the Internet or globalization, the world can expect a lengthy period of low growth and exceedingly difficult fiscal consolidation.
Reducing class sizes would seem to be an obvious improvement; but by itself, smaller class size has not been shown to boost educational performance.
This finding is supported by a recent OECD study, which revealed that over the last decade there has been no “appreciable improvement” in student achievement in the rich countries that invest most in technology for education.
Deng Xiaoping’s reforms ignited the most rapid economic
improvement
in human history and, with it, the emergence of a large and growing middle class.
Some in Egypt will be satisfied only with full democracy; others (probably a majority) will care most about public order, greater official accountability, a degree of political participation, and economic
improvement.
The ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) is a long-standing forum that brings together foreign ministers, and that is benefiting from renewed attention on the part of Clinton, who is making her second appearance – a perfect attendance record since coming into office, and a marked
improvement
on the record of her predecessor, Condoleezza Rice.
While that’s an
improvement
from the unprecedented negative saving position in 2008-2011, it remains far short of the 6.3% average that prevailed over the final three decades of the twentieth century.
Indeed, the Navarro-Ross analysis attributes fully 73% of the growth-inducing revenue windfall of Trumponomics to a massive
improvement
in the overall trade balance over the next decade.
Such
improvement
in the lives and earning potential of poor people could indirectly help with the other challenges; after all, more prosperous people tend to be healthier, better fed, and more highly educated.
But these objectives – including
improvement
of market access in agriculture, manufacturing, and services; clarification of international trade rules; and progress on addressing relevant environmental issues – were overly ambitious.
But its steadfast defense of an international system that was more mutually beneficial than any that had preceded it ushered in seven decades of the greatest innovation, growth, and
improvement
our species has ever known.
But, their policy options need to stress
improvement
, not dismantlement or destruction, of their rules and institutions.
Globalization and open societies, even if imperfect and in need of improvement, benefit nations not only in purely economic terms, but in social, political and cultural ones as well.
Sometimes, policymakers need to focus on preventing things from getting worse, rather than on ambitious agendas for improvement; this is one of those times.
For example, between 1978 and 1987, government regulations produced an
improvement
of 40% in the fuel efficiency of new American-made cars.
Such a government would be an
improvement
over the current one, but it might not have the will – or the votes in Congress – to pursue economic reforms.
Many structural
improvement
programs have been financed at the European level, but agricultural production and land use are not among them.
Though those patients showed no improvement, such transplants appeared to extend lifespan and delay weakness in studies of mice with motor-neuron damage.
Skeptics will scoff at the idea of overall improvement, but the numbers don’t lie.
Even a slight
improvement
in Ukraine’s energy efficiency would contribute more to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions than the vast sums currently being spent to develop renewable energy sources.
Instead, governments played a developmental role by supporting industrialization, higher value-added agriculture and services, and
improvement
of technological and human capabilities.
Its analysis of national efforts shows that, while most countries have made improvements over the last year,
improvement
in some of the largest countries has been minimal, and a few countries have not made any progress at all.
Would it not be a great
improvement
if, when looking at a particular place, we could have in mind all of the world’s previous experiences and automatically identify the most relevant ones, in order to infer what to do next?
An EMF could represent a significant
improvement
on the EU’s current intergovernmental financial-bailout institution, the European Stability Mechanism.
Bank league tables have been with us for a while, and now tend to be based on capital strength, rather than asset volume, which is an
improvement
of sorts, but still not very meaningful.
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